Re: potential bug in display_mode_element?

[Kim F. Storm]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> I got a bug report for emacs-unicode-2, and it seems that
> the same bug exists in HEAD too.  The backtrace is this:
> and never changed in the while loop.  So the only reason I
> can think of why the address pointed by list_string becomes
> out of bound is that the string data of ELT was relocated in
> the loop and the original address was returned to OS.
> Actually, display_string is called in the loop, and it will
> run Lisp code.
>
> So, I think we meed this change.  What do you think?

Bravo!!  We definitely need this patch.

This is the sort of bug that I've been hunting for re. the
crashes in "compact_small_strings" and the free string list.
I'm not sure if this patch will fix the crashes though.

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